View Pit Stop page for race #2144 by pacochen — Ghost race
| Official speed | 94.82 wpm (104.03 seconds elapsed during race) |
|---|---|
| Race Start | October 13, 2022 8:57:34pm UTC |
| Race Finish | October 13, 2022 8:59:18pm UTC |
| Outcome | No win (3 of 5) |
| Opponents |
1. pbnl2 (123.39 wpm) 2. ndr2 (98.78 wpm) 4. mrkmat (87.27 wpm) |
| Accuracy | 98.0% |
| Points | 214.92 |
| Text | #754 (Length: 822 characters) Dozens of companies, even those that had little or nothing to do with the Net, changed their names to include web-oriented designations such as dot.com, dotnet, or Internet. Three researchers from Purdue University, M. Cooper, D. Dimitrov, and P. R. Rau, studied sixty-three companies that changed their names in 1998 and 1999 to include some web orientation. Measuring the price change of the companies from five days prior to a name change (when word of the change began to leak out) to five days after the change was announced, they confirmed a remarkable effect. Companies that changed their names enjoyed an increase in price during that ten-day period that was 125 percent greater than that of their peers. This price increase occurred even when the company's core business had nothing whatsoever to do with the Net. |